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Interesting appellate reading from How Appealing

By Douglas A. Berman

Though not focused purely on sentencing issues, these two items today on How Appealing caught my eye: In federal death penalty trial of defendant charged with two counts of murder committed while engaged in drug trafficking, the federal district court erred in precluding the prosecution from introducing evidence at the guilt phase related to post-mortem dismemberment: You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit at this link. Unanimous three-judge Seventh Circuit panel rejects constitutional challenges to provisions of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act that limit a criminal defendant's access to alleged child pornography in a child pornography prosecution: Chief Judge Frank H. Easterbrook wrote today's ruling...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).